How much training should I be doing? One of the questions coaches often get asked by athletes is: ‘Just how much should I be doing?’. The aim is always to get the balance right both…
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Fundamentally It’s The Fundamentals That Are Important
In this article, Jared shares with us his thoughts on the fundamentals, the key movements which underpin all human movement & performance. Jared is a former international 400m athlete and has competed at every major…
Our Fundamental 5 mobility quick fixes
In this weeks instalment of the Fundamental 5’s we sent our very own Steven Gordon into the gym to record the SCE Fundamental 5 mobility quick fixes. We gave Ste a clear brief here. Go…
Teaching the High Pull with Tamas Feher
This post is a classic from the archives. Tamas is an old colleague of mine and the former head coach to Team GB. I love the way Tamas breaks down the lifts and the speed…
21st Century Core Training Part 2: 5 Key Core Movements you should be doing!
In this fantastic guest post, experienced strength and conditioning coach Danny Hague shares his top 5 core movements. These are very different from the norm with no floor based or seated movements. It’s all essentially…
Exploring the benefits of warm-up strategies
Introduction It is well established that effective warm up strategies prepare the athlete both mentally and physically for exercise or competition (Haffman, 2002., McArdle et al, 2007., Crow et al, 2012., Kraemer and Knobloch, 2009)….
“You Can’t Fire a Cannon from a Canoe”
You Can’t Fire a Cannon from a Canoe The game-heavy schedule a professional cricketer endures throughout the summer months is a difficult period physically and one where improving physically has to give way to recovery…
Do you really know what you’re talking about? Try this test to find out…
Here’s a questioning process called the 3 degrees of why. Ask yourself why three times in a row and see if you can really answer it. Here’s an example: Imagine your critical friend is asking…
Look like a scruff. Play like a scruff.
In this weeks blog post Brendan Chaplin looks into Keith Williams’ graduation speech at the University of Texas which went viral on social media. The message from this article is one of self-reflection. Take a step back and…
The Death of Functional Training?
Today I saw a ridiculous image on Facebook of a guy squatting with some kind of bondage device on his face! I really hope it was a joke or a mock up of some kind…